EA has been forced to defend the historical debauchery of Battlefield V, with EA chief creative officer Patrick Soderlund (who is – of course – Swedish) supporting the game and its rewriting of the past by saying that consumers need to either “accept their cause or don’t buy the game,” a request which – if the Battlefront fiasco is anything to go by – they may be all too willing to oblige.
Patrick Soderlund’s words regarding the backlash against their goals of “diversifying games”:
“We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don’t understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don’t buy the game. I’m fine with either or.”
He also called those claiming the inclusion of women in World War II to be historically inaccurate “uneducated”:
“These are people who are uneducated — they don’t understand that this is a plausible scenario, and listen: this is a game.”
General manager Oskar Gabrielson also fought back against the “notmybattlefield” hashtag with “#everyonesbattlefield” (which has essentially only been used by spambots):
“The Battlefield sandbox has always been about playing the way you want. Like attempting to fit three players on a galloping horse, with flamethrowers. With BFV you also get the chance to play as who you want. This is #everyonesbattlefield.”
Furthermore, Soderlund lamented having to try and explain to his young daughter why fans are angry at him for trying to alter history:
“We felt like in today’s world — I have a 13-year-old daughter that when the trailer came out and she saw all the flak, she asked me, ‘Dad, why’s this happening? She plays Fortnite, and says, ‘I can be a girl in Fortnite. Why are people so upset about this?’ She looked at me and she couldn’t understand it. And I’m like, ok, as a parent, how the hell am I gonna respond to this, and I just said, ‘You know what? You’re right. This is not okay.'”
Even the Battlefield sub-reddit has gone mad with power as the moderators are threatening “consequences” toward those discussing the historical inaccuracies of the game:
“We’re done, its over. New rule: No more bitching about historical accuracy, it’s a game, not a history book. Violatons will have consequences.
Edit: WE ARE NOT PAID BY, CONTROLLED BY OR AFFILIATED TO EA OR DICE
Edit: We get that y’all have valid criticism about battlefield V and the customisation options within the game. Sadly, this subreddit has proven to be unable to have a civil discussion about these things without devolving into name calling and slapfights.
Hate us all you want but we’re done with this bullshit. This issue has been discussed in a million threads but we’ve never been brigaded more than we have in the past months. Admins can only keep up with so much. We’re done wasting our time on this, every point has been made, no you’re not sexists or whatever, but this is just repetitive now.”
Instead they told users to dump their wrongthink opinions in a single containment thread, so EA’s Swede-run cuckfest bonfire of one of its largest non-sports franchises can continue unmolested – a public service if ever there was one.
By trying to make it “everyone’s battlefield” they ironically made it into “no one’s battlefield”.
Enjoy your dead game faggots, insulting your fanbase sure did wonder for Solo after all. Oh wait…
EA also said BFV will don’t have lootbox but it’s turn out they lied again. This time they changed the name to “airlift” the thing give you random item for customize your character. Which is the same fucking thing as lootbox.
how do you think the game industry makes more money than any other entertainment industry despite having a much smaller audience? It’s because the game industry has the most fanboys and sheep, not to mention the short attention span people.
Didn’t gamers unite to mass boycott Battlefront 2’s because of lootboxes not too long ago? And the game still sold like 9 millions. Everywhere you go there are people hating on websites like Polygon, yet the website is still one of the gaming websites with highest traffic. Don’t gamers also pay to play online even tho the fee makes no sense? Or what about that Star Citizen scam? Already at $150 million dollars and the devs still asking for more donations and people are still giving them more money!!
There is no audience that is easier to take advantage of than gaming’s.
despite having a much smaller audience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a_3wQHcm_Y
Not just that game companies can make half broken game and sell it for full price and they can get away with it like usual. Some morons even come out to protect the companies and even fix the game by themselves. Gaming market is full of morons and never learn their lesson.
Once again, they worked factory jobs, did nothing but take care of kids/family, or where nurses.
They weren’t robot armed commanders…
Fucking christ..
all the idiot had to do was say it takes place on alternate earth and to say aanymore would spoil ir, then as the big twist at the end make it so youve been fighting on the evil american side were hitler is the president, and that is unveiled at the end of the game settting up a sequel where you undo the mess you did by playing on the other side and killing the MC from the first battlefield.
I’m sure they created this controversy on purpose, just so they can go “Hah, look! Everybody hates women and we’re victims!”
Exactly. Who the hell do they think Rosie the Riveter was?
The most famous one was an actress that gave up the job after two weeks or so.
Did you bitch this hard when wonder woman was released, because I’m sure a superhuman amazon woman didn’t fight in the first world war.
It’s amazing how far people will go to protect “diversity”. That is, until they are found to be not diverse enough and get s♥♥t on as well.
Listen, you can’t claim historical accuracy and do bullshit at the same time. It’s either or. No one complained about Wonder Woman because neither DC nor Warnerbrothers came and said:
“We are making a new historical World War 2 movie. It’s very well researched, we even got the supernatural amazons right”.
They never claimed to be historically accurate, even the creators of the game themselves have said in the past that they would rather have better gameplay than historical accuracy.
All these realism claims are made by the fanbase. They did it years ago to differentiate themselves from the call of duty crowd.
Don’t lies idiot shill. EA is the one marketing the game as historically accurate and realistic. It’s all over their twitter account. Here one of what EA said on Twitter:
“We treat history with great respect, as we did before with Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 1. With that, we also wanted to empower player choice, diversity and inclusion, so our players can fully customize the way that they want their soldiers look and play.”
Isn’t it great? EMPOWER PLAYER CHOICE, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION!!
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EA actually tweets and promote about how BFV gonna be realistic and historically accurate BEFORE the trailer come out and then AFTER the trailer out and when s♥♥t hit the fan all the tweets that relate to that subject are gone.
And which part of that statement says they want to be historically accurate. All it says is that they respect history as it is, but they would rather want more choices for the players. Its literally the opposite of what you just claim they said.
Wonder Woman = fapping material, good for entertainment
Battlefield women = diversity statement, good for social justice
I thought EA was in the entertainment business, seems I was wrong…
Did Wonder Woman claim to be historically accurate to the point that you could use it to educate children in classrooms?
She did, but the patriarchy used all their power to rewrite the facts!
Did Wonder Woman claim to be historically accurate?
Wonder Woman is female so men can fap. Just like Strike Witches; no one complains about them being girls because, like Wonder Woman, it is done for viewers to enjoy. This is what the entertainment business does.
Battlefield added women and such to be “diverse,” to make a social and political statement. This is what activists do.
All the bitching reduces to this: EA are paid to be entertainers. Don’t bring activist s♥♥t to our games. If they want to fight for whatever s♥♥t cause, they should do it in their free time, not at work (i.e. when making a game meant to entertain)
Then maybe they should say so. That this is just an optional model put in there in case the player prefers it that way. However, they talk about inclusion, about “standing up for their cause,” they even bring how truth is hard to explain to their fucking 13 yo girl and whatnot, that sounds like activist s♥♥t.
Have you thought about maybe this isn’t some activist s♥♥t, or some kind of liberal propaganda, not even a political statement. Maybe they added the female model into the game because its an addition option for the player base. You should stop being so paranoid, there is no grand scheme to destroy your little lives.
Did battlefield v claim to be 100% historically accurate?
Nice thinking! Discreetly add a “100%” in there, no one will notice and you got yourself a straw man to attack!
They said it’s plausible that women could’ve been on the frontlines in WW2, ripping tanks in half with a prosthetic.
I dunno about you, but that’s not very plausible to me. Certainly not something I would teach my kids, nor would I want schools teaching my kids.
Like wonder woman’s plane going over your head and you not seeing it, you missed the point.
Why do you keep mentioning wonder woman you retarded shill this has nothing to do with that garbage. And that crap didn’t claim to be historically accurate, while these pricks at dice advertise it as historically accurate.
There is no point. Wonder woman was a movie and this is a game, both fictitious, get over it.
As Chen-04 brought up: “Suspension of disbelief”.
The readers have an idea of what a super hero comic would be like just from the outset. If you presented that without the super hero caveat and it is set during a specific event but what you produce doesn’t fully reflect that then it just doesn’t work.
The political climate as of late does put some nuance to what has been said too.
There is a point being put forward, you can disagree but from your own admission, you are either willfully or not being ignorant.
Is Wonder Woman used to teach women’s history classes in schools?
Suspension of disbelief plays a good part in any good works of fiction so I wouldn’t dismiss it so easily.
You’re certainly not a mature person: a mature person doesn’t throw out curse words to add to/emphasis their point, or make passive aggressive character attacks.
Did I say I was bothered by the female character? Give me solid evidence I said that because my two replies were:
1. Using the opportunity from your analogy to say you were misguided in your assumption.
2. Using what someone else said to summarize how I saw the argument that you were tackling before going into small detail. I hinted that the political climate likely has a role in this debacle before finalizing with that you are being ignorant to OP’s point. I have you to back that up, “There is no point”.
Why wouldn’t I make that assumption when you backed up his original statement, that clearly states woman shouldn’t be in the game as a soldier. Which is the bases for this entire argument.
And secondly, like I said before, using the whole suspension of disbelief in a video game is bullshit. If your immersion within the game is broken so easily, than that would be your own personal issue. If that is all it takes to alter a game, than the SJW dipshits will have a field day with countless games.
So more of the suspension of disbelief bullshit. Maybe I’m just more mature and realize Its a fucking video game, and not bother by having a woman as a playable character.
EA doesn’t get to play the “Deal with it” card.
Microsoft tried to play that card once. That didn’t work out well for them.
Keep your game adn go f*ck yourselves
They just made the decision easier. See, if you haven’t gone out of the way to virtue signal like a bunch of pussies, I would have shrugged my shoulders at the cringe-worthy pile of game and stuck to multiplayer.
But no, you gotta take this stupid fucking ‘stand’ for ‘diversity’. You gotta try to appeal to a demographic that won’t support your game. You gotta try and shame any dissenters by hiding behind ‘history’ and lame fucking excuses of ‘IS JUST A GAME’.
If anyone doesn’t understand, you can make a fucking female protagonist. I don’t care. I care when people are telling me it’s what I fucking N E E D.
This X100 to the pricks that down voted this guy gtfo you sjw shills.
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Don’t do drugs, kids. They f♥♥k up your typing hands.